When people mess with botany in the design sort of way, you either get a sculpted garden or a jungle feeling. The former can be as totally enthralling as the Jardins du Château de Versailles, but at the economic cost of having to be manicured constantly and at the ecological expense of being and appearing highly artificial. The less obviously intrusive design is the hallmark of the organic approach, which appears to be working well enough on the business side for Green Studios, a recent Lebanese entrepreneurial venture. Green is so ueber-in as a corporate marketing mantra that it is almost prohibitive to trust a company that comes bearing a green moniker on its forehead. But you can trust the business story of the Green Studios venture to be solidly rooted in the most traditional art of shaping and uplifting the human environment with greenery: they design and deliver rooftops
